Anne Hidalgo spoke during an interview on Sunday November 10. The socialist mayor of Paris took stock of her choices in terms of traffic, as well as the reduction in speed of the ring road. Before announcing other measures, in the capital.
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The mayor (Socialist Party) of Paris gave an interview to AFP. It plans to go further, after limiting the ring road to 50 km/h and establishing the “limited traffic area” in the center of Paris.
Anne Hidalgo wants to transform the Trocadéro roundabout, based on what was done on the Place de la Bastille. This square has been made partly pedestrian, just like the Jena Bridge after last summer's Olympic Games.
Measures that she considers urgent and necessary.
By 2030, the councilor proclaims that he is “absolutely essential“to continue to reduce air pollution”which causes 2,500 deaths per year in Paris“She wishes to continue in this direction.”gentle revolution“like the pedestrianization of”streets to schools” favored by all Parisians, including most right-wing mayors.
Anne Hidalgo took the opportunity to react to the reservations expressed by the opposition on these subjects. “For more than ten years, the right, Rachida Dati (ex-Les Républicains mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris)Valérie Pécresse (LR president of the Ile-de-France region) say that I have not consulted, and consider that electric vehicles will solve everything. Except that since 2012, pollution in Paris has fallen by 40% and this is completely correlated to the drop in traffic which is also 40%.“, notes the city councilor.
“What I criticize them for is the lack of intellectual honesty in modifying the reality of scientific data, when the facts are there“, she adds.
Measures which could be conditional on a new mandate. When questioned, the mayor (Socialist Party) of Paris did not respond clearly to this question. “The time has not yet come“, estimates Anne Hidalgo. She denies in passing the “rumors” of a departure to Brussels to take over as head of a foundation.
“She doesn't want to represent herself, that's pretty clear to everyone“, judges, however, a close friend of Anne Hidalgo, 65, who arrived at the helm of City Hall in 2014. In the meantime, the mayor (Socialist Party) of the capital seems to be taking her revenge against Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture in the running for mayor of Paris, and the “Hidalgo bashing” of which she was the subject via the #SaccageParis movement on social networks, particularly after her historically low score in the 2022 presidential election.
If Anne Hidalgo runs again for municipal elections, in 2026 it would be her third consecutive candidacy.
